a nation free accreditation free. for chargers free arrangement three. free. time free. download free braun b.t.o. for your media projects and free media donta r.t. dot com. on larry king now the stars of boardwalk empire michael j. williams and michael shannon all bets the boys clone will be three nicknamed the show to sammy and to michael's like is like a joke you have to be named michael to go on the show does that mean that michael's mazing no one people know about so if you were i'd probably know linda lives. right now on skid. row plus are you out playing all keep guys i don't know i like i don't like playing characters that i think are complicated that's all ahead on larry king now.

you're watching larry king our guest is michael kind of williams one of the stars of boardwalk empire he plays a self-made crime boss talking white he's also known for his revered character omar little on h.b.o.'s the wire what do you make of the success of boardwalk empire that they did this as cons from the his to be. covering you know just american guy says the birth of the american gangster and the fascinated by that you know as you get the role just auditioned for myself on tape i was actually in south africa shooting a shooting of a series n.b.c. and i got the call up myself once they sent in you said to dot com a move for. endorsements but what are they asking to do on the tape. you know was a mock interviews michael edition of the scene had nothing to do with with was

never entered in this show was them a mark or dish and they just as you questions no i had to i had to run and i was actually never campbell soup on the show with me she ran the lines for me and it was the mark marking of michael edition who came up with winning truckie it had to be them that terry went there even when it was in his mind how do you or how would you describe truckie white what izzy chalky was a self-made man he's on he's on an it's an indicator by society's standards you know he's literate he's a has a lot of pain seen this is a man who's seen his father hung from a pepper tree and he saw by any means necessary he would have he would create a better life for his children and he made the best of what he had which is a street life do you like him god loves rocky yeah how do you prepare for

something life being what you're. getting into a character mode for me getting into character always involves some sort of music i make play lists of all my characters to invoke whatever emotion the character is going through i do the backstory i give the. siblings whether their only child they're the middle child the oldest child i give them a birthday a sign things that anybody who went on here should be that this fun think about what was this guy like as a kid absolutely and you know what what made him what he was and you i understand truck is now on good terms with nicky right not not in tom's is that going to last . is it's going to be challenge their relationship is definitely going to be challenged by other characters played by jeffrey wright which is a doctor in our series is it a fun set. that show all the characters all get on of mass the boys' club you know

we really need to name the show to sammy and the michael's like it's like a joke you have to be named michael to go on the show to meet michael so you know it's a boys' club we all we all love each other we support each other and steve you know i believe in it trickles down hill and stays the tone for how we buy to treat each other is always so humble gracious hardworking and we we care about one another we were there for each other we won lines together is just surreal everybody comes a day game and we just come the we're going to have fun he's a great actor who finally got the success the great acting he had rate that is very stand up to the unknown you know what was the working more when you get the script we get the script. on a monday on a tuesday it never is never the same i mean we've got rewrites the day of the scene is being shot and they try to keep the schedule at least about a week before we shoot we get it we get to get in the spirit are you going to

remember in lines you know i don't yeah i am because i don't look at it as remembering lines i attack the story like if i told you something that was that you found very interesting i can say that one time you would go home and that i could go to a white like you know what michael told me today so i approach it from that aspect i look at it as the story what is the story and then once you digest it once i've digested that the lies a kind of because it makes this is logical that this would be the dialogue as you're going out. you know on acting chose me i was as a history dancer from history where i'm from new york with a dance in every club in new york city and i got lucky and started asking for recording artist we call them commercial jazz as we go on tour most of my my jaws consisted of house music art is like krista waters tech of china x. c.c. telling stan that i got into the world of music videos it was shortly after. i got

cut my face i wanted the attention of various photographers and directors like david la chapelle james mentioned marcus nusbaum randy st nichols and they started putting me in these music videos and it was doing what dancing dancing in mosul acting i would do these vignettes i would play these scenes in music videos that's when the music video world was changing when it was you know you you create these scenes the acting world is the scenes in the music video and it was actually on the set of george michael madonna enjoys michael's video was when i really knew that i was on to something you know was on the george michael set and mark is nestle was telling me to remote and i was like what the hell is emote me and when i realize that it was acting without words as when the light bubble of my head. and you liked it yeah it was bit like being other people that's another story yeah he did comedy too right yeah you know i i will community has to laugh at myself.

we're going to throw out the wire in the next segment but tell me about this coming movie twelve years a slave job is a slave is based on a true story it was a man who was a free slaves he had a he had a wife a family he was a fluent violin player he lived as will i guess what they considered back then as a middle class lifestyle in saratoga new york i believe and he was offered to go on the road with this with this group i go on our show and he got kidnapped drugged and sold back into slavery and it can twelve years to get his life back or you play i play a character in him a samuels and this is the first time that. the lead the lead character for get into the name of the lead character the budget to tell plays him when he first gets on to the slave ship and they put us on in new orleans and i'm being brought on to the ship as well and i'm involved and we're on this ship and we're we're planning

a mutiny to take over the ship and to to free ourselves and it doesn't go well we worked on the wire president obama once that omar little character you played was his favorite character on t.v. is it and b. he were all right tell me about that role how you got it you know my process is no different in the leg to put myself on tape with alexa fogel she is a casting director and i was once one shot as to i know that they were telling me to report to baltimore just like that just like that now these guys have all had dark pasts right how did you view him how did i view omar. i viewed omar as a man who was in a tremendous amount of pain. i also viewed him as a man that could have been you know very easily president or more little had he been given the opportunities i looked at him as a person who was

a product of his environment and the lack of opportunities that was given him he just made the best of what he had is it true you can first see using grays were playing a role in the script out about how. to quote jay z. here's a line as as you you were who you were for you got there and that was pretty much an issue that i had to tackle long before the wire oh you have before them here how to do it. that i just forgot when then decided i didn't want to die at least not that way you know it got down to that point where you have a stonewall playing a part absolutely. and you get through that. got. me had to think to yourself yeah i was and i was able to do this you know.

you know i got a break with omar you know the fact that this character was so much pain. it paralleled my real life and it became the character became cathartic for me i was able to to execute a lot of lobbying usually i used it. did it work you know what i was a was a user you have to scar i got to scar my twenty fifth birthday. i was highly intoxicated as we call it the liquid courage when too many and. entertained a conversation that i normally am i right my i would have ignored and i got jumped . almost died. is that a glass no he he spit a razor in prison you know people know how to hide raises either in their mouth on their rectum you know like i know people who could have a conversation right now with the with the with the book

a razor in their mouth and you would never know when you get up there's a movie of above the room that the late great two packs a core he does that he callout plays a little it's a kind of in a state of from his mouth and to think is it as pretty what it was what happened it's called spitting raises and he held it between his fingers here and touch it he added he was smacking me if we have some social media when we have some social media questions for you as scotty brother go what is something you want people know about trucking white that no one does know. mazing i want people know about saudi wide and probably no one knows. right now i skid don't take it further than that there's a good him i barely live on spots on facebook how badly be a mess the wire i do miss the wire because of what we had in baltimore you know i

made a lot of good friends people i consider my family know and i missed a city and miss having to go down there spending my summers and bought some was this a beautiful city girl is great people love the orioles that you know but. you know you can't go back this is it was a place in my life time that i'm very grateful for but i do miss the city of baltimore. at k g m ten say she wants to know what we can expect from your character in twelve years a slave it's only the parts only six minutes your part is six minutes long approximately it will remember it right i believe so it all of sitting at that movie with steve mcqueen it was. i guess what you would call out of body experience it was a scene where you know my character's being brought to the slave ship and he was vaulted you know and they they own the. beetle.

and they beat him to the point where he. and so we we kept filming that over and over again and around the fourth of fifth taken with steve mcqueen's she was he doesn't take long breaks between takes and around the fourth or fifth time i looked about the sky and something came over me and for a quick second i got a glimpse into what it must have been like so much and sisters and. i broke down and i could not stop screaming and crying and i remember the still coordinator who was a white man he key got on the floor with me he cradled me in his office in iraq he is going to say let it out some kid let it out that it out and it was like oh i don't know how many seconds that that and then his do not jump off now that will he does go. back to the one that's going away to see that. thank you miles

thank you that my hometown the williams one of the stars of boardwalk empire not chat with michael's costar michael shannon right after this. a. very hard day got. to get there. in that. regard right here.

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walk the. new york with oscar nominated actor michael shannon best known as nelson ben all done in the it h.b.o. show boardwalk empire that airs sundays at nine pm on h.b.o. he's also played the villain general zod in the summer's superhero blockbuster man of steel he played the jersey mob hitman richie called kinski in the iceman out on d.v.d. now tell me about this role on the boardwalk empire how do you see him nelson oh well he's been through so many changes. and he's a pretty good example of somebody who. got their beliefs handed to him on a platter you know he started out very righteous a crusader against drink drink yes and. basically because of

all the corruption. and lanning city was not able to do much about it and eventually just gave up and his life and it crumbled apart and now he's just trying to survive he said. he's a fugitive he's had a run away and taken a different name for himself to easily unmindful the success of the ship i think part of it is the way it looks the period the detail they rebuilt hardly ever will be they still the boardwalk yeah they built a boardwalk although i think it's been. decommissioned i don't know if we even used a more and you know they built the on the on the shore of the east river and. what i think people are really drawn to. the period you know and. it was it was a great idea to explore that time of the twenty in particularly in atlantic city

and this character you know is based on a real real man who basically ran atlantic city for most of the day as you get the role it's it's a mystery to me i worked in i had a meeting with terence winter martin scorsese and steven levinson who was one of the producers. at the waldorf. and i didn't even do an audition or anything we'd not just sat there and i think terry turns what i had seen me in a play. that at left quite an impression on him and kind of it almost seemed as if he would wrote the part with me in mind but on them i really hear if that is scorsese hands on that. i know he he watches all them and he gives notes and feedback but he's very busy and you love playing or keep dimes if you like you like playing little girls. i don't know i like. i like playing characters that i

think are complicated for example someone kills i think is very it's a very complicated character because he's not necessarily a villain he's just. as different interest than than most people on earth because he's not from here you know krypton he's a hero you know he's basically trying to save his civilization i like that the stakes of that the stakes are very high he's a fun movie to do yeah was it's a lot of fun to work with zack snyder he's he's a wonderful man and he's just a lot of fun the to be around. and you're going to be in superman batman and. i have no idea i've heard anything yet still there's you know a board walk so those lovely an actor is. going to stumble into it in high school when i was

a little boy i didn't kentucky lexington kentucky you know when i was a little boy i never thought of being an actor never occurred to me i actually started with with music a long time you know i played in the orchestra and played the string bass like johnny depp from kentucky oh yeah played guitar. yeah there's a lot of george clooney he's clearly in there from the heart of country i guess some crews there's a breed actors i don't know i don't know and jennifer lawrence is from louisville kentucky she's the biggest star in oregon i know who you true is roles in other words do you have to like it right away. what's your modus operandi it's it's kind of different for each for each project sometimes there's certain people i want to work with for example there's a director i work with jeff nichols we're about to do our fourth movie together and he's just an artist that i really admire and believe in and like working with.

something like iceman. what drew me into that was the person himself you know seeing the interviews that he did and the challenge of trying to figure out what made him tick you know out his mind operated. and it's something like man of steel is just you know the the exhilaration of being in. such a massive movie you have to like the person you play. i usually wind up liking them yeah. being oddly kind of you know defending them you know because they like themselves mostly yeah although they may be you know torment i mean someone like dan all that i think is full of guilt and remorse i mean it as even a certain amount of self loathing i think i mean when you've got

a guy he's with him self in fact we've seen up to you have to walk in his shoes though yeah i guess he'd be regarded as a character actor that's kind of a strange term. as opposed to someone who's a star vehicle you see yourself in that role you can see is of a character actor or i'm certainly not in a. position where someone is going to run out and spend one hundred million dollars making a movie you know start me you know going to see my face plastered on the side of a building do you want that. really i mean i like being able. you know walk down the street take the subway and when we're after right around it but people must go by and say oh yeah yeah yeah i get my share that. but i don't mind as long as it's not too invasive

he starred in theater i did yeah i started in chicago doing theater in chicago i was there for i mean it's all relative i guess but quite some time you know like the other i do i do i love doing theater i always i always do at least one show a year. if not more but it's hard it's hard to find time for it it's very time consuming and not as well rewarding financially yeah well yeah financially although i did a show on broadway recently and that's a pretty good gig was a show called grace it was a play called grace oh i want to ride in. and my partner carrington the four of us in the play fun oh yeah i mean it was it was really pretty thrilling i had never been on broadway before so and i get in the stodgy i walk by the theater the court theater and oh yes right now many times yeah now i get that i think you mckellen

tricks to record so did you was groundhog day your first movie that's how i got my own sag card yeah you know i was good the put. you know they date shot that movie just outside of chicago and they cast a lot of the you know the smaller roles in chicago and yes when you read for harold amos and i loved him yeah he's a lovely man it was interesting because it is we shot the movie in the summer but it's mostly the wintertime it's the ground so that they took over this little town in illinois woodstock illinois was in pennsylvania. and they covered it with fake snow and there are people walking around heavy coats on even though it's the middle zone there's very surreal and. those who did you did funny or die and i've done that a few tall havea goes one by will what did you do on that there's a crazy i read that as sorority letter. was kind of famous

recently of this girl freaked out was your name rebecca. she freaked out on our sorority sisters and wrote this really nasty letter and i read it you read it but i was funnier don yes we have a social media question carol malaki of instagram boardwalk empire as a period show how much did just time did you spend in research to prepare for the role but i think we all there was a book called boardwalk empire that we all read. to kind of get the facts of the period and what not but. the thing about my character is ease completely a figment of the imagination some of the other characters that are sure obviously based on real people but you know terry told me right away when i met him that this was somebody he had made up so. honestly i use a lot mostly my instincts the tall ships tweets what directors would do i do work with in the future if you haven't worked with. well i'd love to work with david

lynch a law enforcement i think he's moving away from yeah i heard that making movies the people with all their quitting you know sort of. things i feel miami wanted was not only are they keep that a arm's length calm spare of instagram want to know what did you find hardest about playing the iceman just thinking about you know killing i'm not a violent person and. it's very upsetting i would bother me to play a game of if you only knew we just as quick question all right what's your favorite movie of all time the king of comedy scorsese and jerry lewis yes jerry lewis what's your favorite role debate. take shelter in my movie take shelter i made curtis the character of curtis is probably the one that i have the most emotional connection to have

a pet peeve obliviousness. remember the first girl you have a kiss my god yes i do i was running and all you i was. thirteen kentucky yes it was it was orchestra thing although he was in the office and yeah we were at our youth orchestra retreat what i have and angela had no idea of this year three years was there a moment you knew that you had made it that this was your profession. probably the first time i came to new york and did a show here that was of. pretty amazing it was back in ninety eight this way killer joe i did old scott glenn and amanda did it with killer joe the

movie unseeingly. we just did interviews on that yeah that was was you play them was on a roll no i played a meal hirsch role oh yeah because i was you know i was when i was a little bit younger oh god what a play yeah yeah it's a crazy everybody has seen that lays. great scene in my place larry thanks for me thanks to our guests the stars of h.b.o.'s boardwalk empire michael shannon and michael k. williams and remember you can find me on twitter at teams things see an x. time. world. technology innovation and all the developments from

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